Instead of offering up a commentary, I'll just give you the advice that you should make sure your designer's next fee includes adherence to the basic tenets of SEO on his redesign of your site. The generator he uses to build his clients' themes isn't very good at SEO, or code generation, and neither was his use of WordPress, which is why your site is not nearly as good as it should (not "could") be.

On the plus side, based on your service area, it doesn't take much to rank well, so you're doing fine on that end. That could change, however, so I'd make sure he rebuilds your site in the best way possible.

The generator he uses to build his clients' themes isn't very good at SEO, or code generation

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I use Artisteer myself, and agree, the SEO quality is not that great, have been trying to get them to change things (primarily the use of H1) for a while now. The latest version is a little better though. I find myself changing them so much when I generate a template, I'm building a script to auto change the output from it.

(The older version bad enough I used to take the page and just re-code it myself)

Instead of offering up a commentary, I'll just give you the advice that you should make sure your designer's next fee includes adherence to the basic tenets of SEO on his redesign of your site. The generator he uses to build his clients' themes isn't very good at SEO, or code generation, and neither was his use of WordPress, which is why your site is not nearly as good as it should (not "could") be.

On the plus side, based on your service area, it doesn't take much to rank well, so you're doing fine on that end. That could change, however, so I'd make sure he rebuilds your site in the best way possible.

Out of curiosity, how long ago did he build your site?

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2 years now i think.

i think i remember asking him to start wordpress. as i thought i could alter it myself easier.

yes he did some seo origionally. i seem to rank #1 in about every search i can think of. so i'm happy with that.

Instead of offering up a commentary, I'll just give you the advice that you should make sure your designer's next fee includes adherence to the basic tenets of SEO on his redesign of your site. The generator he uses to build his clients' themes isn't very good at SEO, or code generation, and neither was his use of WordPress, which is why your site is not nearly as good as it should (not "could") be.

On the plus side, based on your service area, it doesn't take much to rank well, so you're doing fine on that end. That could change, however, so I'd make sure he rebuilds your site in the best way possible.

would this be better than what i have?? yes seo is very improtant to me. i dont want to loose my ranking either.

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No, I don't think that design layout (which is en vogue right now, and one I use often) is inherently better than what you have. I also have the personal opinion he's not a "designer" as much as he is a guy who plugs in your info and hits the publish key. Again, there's nothing inherently wrong with that as it fits a budget.

SEO-wise, that site you referenced suffers from many of the same issues yours does, leading me to believe he's not really much for SEO, either.

Again, as long as it's done right, the $300 is probably not far off from setting up a small site and plugging your content into it. The problem I see is that he just doesn't seem to be very good at doing it.